Maybe Indiana could add a rider to the bill declaring that all gays must wear rainbow stars. Of course if that happened everyone who was anyone in Indiana would want to wear one… See John Moyers thoughts on the Indiana devolution below.

Take sexual identity. If every LGBT person out there were a flamboyant drag queen, it might be easier for a merchant to decide who to refuse. But some gay people, like me, are just average white guys — I don’t swish, lisp or call everyone “honey,” and if there’s a song on my lips, it’s more likely Jerry Garcia than Judy Garland.

What’s a God-fearing Indiana merchant to do if I walk in the door? Am I responsible for his damnation if I let him serve me without mentioning that I’m gay and he doesn’t guess it? Must he ask all customers about potential offenses to his faith?

Complicating things is the fact that some straight men are a bit effete and some straight women are kind of butch. Just because God made them like that doesn’t mean their dry cleaning should get turned away.

So, perhaps Indiana now needs a law requiring I.D. cards for all citizens — yellow for the hets, pink for the homos — to protect both the souls and the profits of faithful, freedom-loving Chamber of Commerce members. Or maybe gays should be required to tattoo their foreheads for quick identification. If so, the same should go for straight people who practice oral and anal sex, since what offends some religious beliefs is “sodomy” defined more broadly, not merely loving someone of the same gender.

The 27th marks 20 years that the white supremacist Web site Stormfront has been serving up all forms of hate to its racialist and often violent audience. To mark this occasion, Hatewatch will be running a series of stories about the hate site, its activities, its principals and its funders. We start today with an exposé about Stormfront radio, which the site’s founder Stephen “Don” Black launched about a year ago on the Rense Radio Network. Beamed into hundreds of thousands of homes across North American and Europe, Stormfront radio is now one of the largest purveyors of hate propaganda in the world.

Authorities in Missouri say a heavily armed man with antigovernment views and a “Rambo” personality threatened to kill police officers and expressed hatred of blacks and Muslims before his arrest Wednesday in St. Louis.

David Michael Hagler, 53, who lived on food stamps and part-time work as a landscaper, faces four federal firearms charges, including illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun and an unregistered machine gun. He is being held without bond until a preliminary hearing next week, according to court document information.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that FBI agents and police bomb squad teams spent Thursday searching for booby traps in two adjacent St. Louis homes where informants said Hagler had stockpiles of guns, 10,000 rounds of ammunition and had talked of “mass attacks on (police) officers at funerals or fundraisers.”

Dark_Falconre: #2 Decatur Deb "Away with the NFA!!1", judging by his two violations of the National Firearms Act. This dirtbag is going to be doing federal time for that unregistered short-barreled shotgun and that automatic weapon. I'd expect he gets ...

Seattle’s mayor has joined others planning to boycott Indiana over the passage of the controversial “religious freedom” law this week.

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says he will not allow work-related city-funded travel to Indiana, after the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which has the potential to discriminate against LGBT people and others based on religious beliefs.

Murray, who is the city’s first openly gay mayor, says Seattleites know that discrimination has no place in their city. He says the new law doesn’t reflect the city’s values. The mayor says Seattle is a leader in the fight to protect civil rights and ensuring equality for all people. For that reason, he says no taxpayer money will support a discriminatory law.

If you have to say “it’s not about racism” then it probably is about racism. Hint: The sign specifically states “Diversity means chasing down the last white person” in the owner’s paranoid apocalyptic vision it’s not zombies doing the chasing.

- A controversial sign spotted in other states has now appeared in Asheville.

The sign references diversity with the hashtag “white genocide.” The people behind it are associated with the White Genocide Project.

Last Saturday they spread their message around the world by taking to the streets with posters, signs and billboards, saying white people are being chased down and forced to accept diversity which they call white genocide.

At least two signs have been spotted in Asheville along Sweeten Creek Road and Smokey Park Highway. Both of those signs read, “Diversity means chasing down the last white person” ending with hashtag “white genocide.”

Well well well, looks like Ted Cruz is going to get to meet one of our “old friends,” who happens to be such a “good scholar,” he ended up getting his work published by a company that also publishes creationist material. Jenna McLaughlin reports!

Robert Spencer and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Wikimedia, Ron Sachs/Zuma

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who announced his candidacy for President on Monday via Twitter, is expected to speak at the Young America’s Foundation’s “New England Freedom Conference” in Nashua, New Hampshire on Friday.

Also on the lineup is Robert Spencer, the co-founder of Stop Islamization of America and director of the Jihad Watch blog. He is notorious for his attacks on Islam. “It’s absurd” to think that “Islam is a religion of peace that’s been hijacked by … extremists,” he said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February. He has compared Muslims to Nazis and demanded that Muslims take a loyalty test before being appointed to public office in America. He has told reporters that Islam is here to take over America, and that President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim. His book opens with the rallying cry of the Crusades, “God wills it!” and he calls for a second crusade against Islam.

I wonder if Spencer’s partner in crime Pamela Geller will be there as well?

One of Carson’s advisers said Obama looked good and Carson responded by calling the president a “psychopath.”
“Like most psychopaths,” Carson said. “That’s why they’re successful. That’s the way they look. They all look great.”
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“On several occasions, I tried to get Carson to concede that his analogy likening the U.S. to Nazi Germany was out of line,” GQ’s Jason Zengerle wrote. “Our longest discussion about the matter came in Jerusalem, in the cafeteria of the Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem. We’d spent the previous ninety minutes touring the museum, followed by Carson entering Yad Vashem’s Hall of Remembrance and, black kippah atop his head, laying a wreath. … Given all this, I asked Carson, did it make him reconsider his analogy?”
Carson again didn’t budge.
“Not at all,” he said. “It makes [the Nazi comparison] even stronger.”

HappyWarriorre: #7 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse I haven't been in a while honestly so I don't quite recall. That's something he should learn about he won't because he's convinced that he's just like a victim of the Nazis.

And he had to defend foisting off a 1/2 governor as a valid candidate to head the Most Powerful Military In The World should he, fall down, and not get up. So Bibi can lie cheat and steal, after coming here on the GOP’s dime, and then it doesn’t matter what he says? Ah. Elections. In other nations. Outside our borders. With implications for all of us here because…Bibi can say whatever and it’s just “politics”. Just when you think John McCain learned to STFU, he proves you wrong.

“Why?” you ask, is Ted my favorite? Because few others demonstrate the ignorant and reactionary populism of the modern GOP better: picture a blind paranoid tusk-less elephant trumpeting to stampede the herd because he thought he heard a mouse.

Federal govt has no business sticking its nose in education. We need to repeal every word of Common Core! #nhpolitics#MakeDCListen

We reported on the fundamental problem with this tweet: Common core is not a federal law and, therefore, cannot be repealed by the federal government.

At Bloomberg News, Dave Weigel noted that Cruz had been making similar statements for months and sought an explanation. Here is what Cruz’s spokeswoman said:

Common Core is a federally created curriculum that the state’s ‘Race to the Top’ grants are tied to. So if the state does not adopt the standards, it gives up the grant money. But since the federal government created this mess, there should be a way to undo it.

Literally every claim in that statement is false.

First, Common Core is not “federally created.” It was created by the states, on a voluntary basis. As NPR reported, “the federal government played no role in creating the standards, nor did it require that states adopt them.”

Second, Common Core is not a “curriculum.” Federal law actually prohibits the federal government to “to endorse, approve, or sanction any curriculum designed to be used in an elementary school or secondary school.” Common Core is a set of math and English guidelines that outline a set of skills one should have at the end of each grade. The curriculum used to obtain those skills is left to school districts, schools and teachers.

Mike RSo what if it is not true, that has nothing to do with modern Republican politics. In fact the farther from the truth it is the better it seems. How many times has Cruz spouted complete crap and the base ...

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From Sen. Schumer's Facebook page: There are two simple reasons the comparison does not hold water. First, the federal RFRA was written narrowly to protect individuals' religious freedom from government interference unless the government or state had a compelling interest. ...

We are at a critical moment in Indiana's history. And much is at stake. Our image. Our reputation as a state that embraces people of diverse backgrounds and makes them feel welcome. And our efforts over many years to ...

UPDATE MARCH 30: NEW TIME FOR LIVE STREAM - 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PDT NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project will be flying a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on ...

What's this? Another article on Cracked about how incorrigibly tribal-minded us homo sapiens are? Well, yes. But the proverbial devil is in the proverbial details. Proverbially. It's still worth reading. That's what I'm getting at. Everyone is talking about Scientology ...

China attacks the biggest code repository in the world. After battling a distributed denial of service attack for four days, GitHub on Monday was able to restore normal service levels. The primary target of the assault is greatfire.org, which is ...

An American woman--presumably not Muslim, though she doesn't say one way or the other--married to a Libyan man is taken aback when her 9-year-old daughter suddenly wants to start wearing hijab. This is the story of how conflicted she felt ...

NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - Big Wall Street banks are so upset with U.S. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren's call for them to be broken up that some have discussed withholding campaign donations to Senate Democrats in symbolic protest, ...

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama's healthcare law that took aim at a bureaucratic board labeled by some Republicans as a ...

Depending on the outcome of a hearing scheduled for Monday, a 33-year-old Indiana woman could face up to 70 years in prison for what she says was a miscarriage. Reproductive rights advocates say her case is a disturbing example ...

On Friday, Motherboard reve​aled that fully functioning Uber accounts were for sale on the dark web. Today, it appears that some people have fallen victim to fraudulent trips being made with their login credentials. "It happened this morning," Phil ...

Are conservatives anti-science? Spoiler: Conservatives aren't anti-science or pro-science. But, they are pro-common-sense. And once more scientists adopt common sense approach to science, they'll find that they have the support of conservative politicians - the people whose job it is ...

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Here is an interesting article on one of Tail Gunner Joe's sick witch hunts that has, unfortunately, been forgotten. I try not to feel schadenfreude of the fate of McCarthy's side kick, Ray Cohn, but I never succeed.

About the Graphic How should a woman try to get ahead in a male-dominated workplace? Perhaps the answer lies less on women "manning up" and more in how businesses value their employees. Many women confront this tension as they ...

If we accept the idea of Orthopraxy over Orthodoxy, then what does evangelism look like? What is the Witness of those who try to follow the Way of Christ Jesus? To evangelize is to spread the good news that we ...

A short column in The Nation that is a must read. The primary difference between liberalism and conservatism, at least in theory, is that the latter is an ideology and the former isn't. Conservatism, as Milton Friedman argued, posits that ...

Blow off Snowden all you like, but what was revealed to be true is still true. The NSA lacks oversight with power. FISA is already too much and now they casually exceed even that generous provision. The world first learned ...

This is a powerful admission of culpability and I applaud his courage in making it. It really should be read in its entirety. Glenn Ford should be completely compensated to every extent possible because of the flaws of a system ...

Sarah Vine of the DM gets it wrong: SARAH VINE: Teaching 11-year-olds about rape is a form of child abuse The problem with this country, I've come to realise, is that it treats adults like children and children like adults. ...